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ROOSEVELT N0T A CA\DIDATE.
Statement Made by President of Out
look Company-Meeting With
Taft.
Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 4.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt is not a can
didate for the presidency, according t(
Lawrence F. Abbott, president of the
Outlook, of New York, with which Mr
Roosevelt is actively associated. Tbi
statement is made today in the Loca'
Press, weekly -newspaper publishec
here, the home of Mr. Abbott.
The statement reviews Mr. Roose
Velt's connction with national poli
tics the last three years. It WR{
-brought out, so the editor of the Local
Press says, when he asked Mr. Abboti
whether Mr. Roosevelt is a candidatE
for the presidency.
Won't Take Active Part.
"You must understand to begir
with," Mr. Abbott says in what is
termed a dictated statement, "thai
whatever I say in answer to youi
question, I say solely on my own re
sponsibility and without any consulta
tion of Mr. Roosevelt.
. "You ask me whether Mr. Roosevelt
is a candidate for the presidency. I
answer no. He is not a candidate:
he does not desire to be a candidate.
He has discouraged and is discourag
ing in every possible way all talk of
his~ candidacy and he will take no ac
tive share of any kind in the contests
of various candidates, contests which
are always in evidence for two o
three months preceding any national
convention."
Mr. Abbott then reviews at length
Mr. Roosevelt's connection with na
tional poli-tics during the last three
years, "in order to understand the
present political situation with re
gard to the presidential nomination
next summer." He then tells how Mr.
Roosevelt declined the Republican
nomination in 1908, "which he very
easily could have had," and how Mr.
Taft's nomination and election were
brought about.
Credited With Taft's Election.
"His (Roosevelt's) political experi
ence contributed so largely to the
successful result of the election thai
his critics hav'e said that hie alone
nominated and elected Taft," Mr. Ab
bott says, and continues:
-"Unfortunately, some of Mr. Taft's
'advisers .took this mistak-en vie w of
the case and urged him to separate
hfinaself so thoroughly from any Roose
velt associations that his administra
tion could create its own policies. and
that thus he might 'be renominated and
re-elected in 1912 on his own indivi
dual !msrits without any taint of
Rooseveltism."
Mr. Roosevelt has never failed, Mr.
Abbott declares, to respond q.uickly
and cordially to the slightest wisb
expressed by Mr. Taft for his company
or his views and he instances the pri
mate interview, at New Haven in 1910,
between Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt.
That meeting, he says, it has been un
fortunately announced, was sought by
Mr. Roosevelt to get some 'help in his
\ contest with the "Old Guard" of the~
/State. He adds:
'TeHow it Came About.
"Tefacts are-and I have learned
Sthem not from Mr. Roosevelt, but from
-a friend of Mr. Taft-that Mr. Taft
sent word to Mr. Roosevelt, asking to
come in order that he (Mr. Taft)
might get the benefits of Mr. Roose
velt's advice regarding the serious
split in the national affairs of the
Republican party which resulted from
the fight of the progressives against
so call-ed 'Cannonism.'"
Mr. Abbott declares that whatever
Mr. Roosevelt does or says will be in
terpreted by some critics to his dis
advantage, and he instances an article
of Mr. Roosevelt's on the trust ques
tion, published several weeks ago. It
was held by some, Mr. Abbott says, to
be an indication that Roosevelt was
Sseeking the presidency and that the
.appearance of the article was timed
by him at just the psychological
-'~.oet to produce the greatest ef
fect. If there was any political astut
niess in its appearance, it should go tc
~the editors of his publication who sug
gested the article and fixed the datE
for its Spublication.
If Mr. Roosevelt is elected president,
according to Mr. Abbott, it will not
be 'because he seeks or wants it, but
because the country wants him to
perform a certain job.
VEEDICT REACHED
NOT UNAMOUS
Dramatie Situation Arose in Green.
wood Court-Sentence Passed by
Judge Sease.
Greenwood, Jan. 6.--One of the
most dramnatic situations ever wit
nessed in the court room here was de
veloped this afternoon in the course
of the argument fo' a new trial for
reorge W. Toamr cnviedM of man
slaughter early Tuesday morning, i
having been on trial for two days for
the shooting of Luther P. Mullinax at
Troy some tim ago. The sensation
in the motion for a new trial lay in
the fact that one of the jurors, M. F.
- Sanders, of Greenwood, made an af
. fidavit as to the matter in which the
verdict was arrived at and why. That
he was supported in this affidavit by
two other jurors was not known when
F. Barron Grier started to read the
affidavit and as soon as he reached the
point in the affidavit that Mr. Sanders
had been a juror in the casu and held I
convictions that the verdict was not
what he believed it shoild be Judge
Sease with flushed face, asked Mr.
Grier to stop reading.
He said that he had polled the jury
when the verdict was r'ad and that
every man had answered it was his
verdict and that court could not allow
anything to come before it relating to
what had transpired in the jury room.
Mr. Grier asked for permission, to
explain the nature of his position and
why it was necessary to make this
preliminary statement. Upon this be
ing done and after further argument
along this same line by C. C. Feather
stone for the defense, Judge Sease
permitted the reading of the affidavit.
Other Affidavits.
The other jurors making an affidavit
similar to Mr. Sanders were G. M.
Anderson, of Ninety-Six, and A. J.
Langley, of Greenwood. This affidavit
in substance stated that after several
ballots the jury finally decided among
theinselves that they would continue
to ballot until two-thirds of them
should agree on a verdict and that
when this was done the verdict of the
two-thirds should be the verdict of all.
Under this arrangement finally two
thirds voted for manslaughter and so
this became the verdict of the whole
jury. Just previous to the last vote
the jury stood seven for acquittal and
four for manslaughter, but the next
vote was eight for manslaughter and
four for acquittal. The attorneys for
the defense argued long and earnestly
that it was not a constitutional ver
dict, after having made an able argu
ment as to why the judge should con
sider the affidav'it. After their argu
iment Solicitor Cooper opposed the
granting of a new trial on the grou4nd
that it was against public pelicy to
contravene the verdict on the ground
proposed. The fore.man of the jury,
J. M. Townsend, was sworn and raade
a statement to the court. He told of~
the ballots and how the rule was
adopted. He said he had all stand up
and agree afterwards that it was the
unanimous verdict.
The defense contende:1 that this
agreement bound only to thc agree
ment that two-thirds should rule and
that the two-thirds rule ils not rec
ognized in the State though strenu
ous efforts have been made to have it'
adopted. Solicitor Cooper iii conclu
sion said that he must continue to
oppose granting a new trial.
New Trial Refused.
Judge Sease concurred in this, and
in ,refusing the motion said with
warmth that he hoped he would never'
hav,e to pass upon such a question
again while he was on the bench. He
went on 'to say, that though jurors
might feel conscience stricke.., thatI
public policy demanded the jury
room be held secret and ceacred ar
that after the statement of. the fore
man of the jury he felt that the ver
dict should stand. The jurors could
not studltify themselves. Having Mr.
Long; placed in the dock and after lis
tenning to a plea for leniency from F.
Barron Grier of the defense- suppk -1
mented by C. C. Featherstone, Judge~
Sease pronounced sentence upon him,
this sentence being three years and
six months on the public works of Lhe
county or the sames time in the State
penitentiary. An appeal will be taken
tfrom Judge .Sease's overruling the
motion fo.r a new trial.
WILL SUSTAMN DR., WILEY.
gild Criticism for Wilson--Report on
Pure Food Probe.
Washington, Jan. 4.--A report based
upon a sub-committee's informal
agreement to sustain Dr. W. H. Wiley
without seyere criticism of Secretary
!of Agribulture Wilson, will be speedi-'
ly whipped into shape at a series of
Imeetings which the house committee1
that, investigated the Wiley case will
hold, beginning tomorrow.
IThe investigation of the charges
and counter charges in the pure food
fight which centered around Dr. Wiley,
chief of the chemistry bureau, and his
antagonists on the so-called govern
mnen,t referee board, was made by the
house committee on expenses in the
department of agriculture during the
extra session of congress. The report
will be made public within a few days.I
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